George Washington Elementary School News

Dear Parent, Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) requires states to report the percent of parents with a child receiving special education services who report that schools facilitated parent involvement as a means of improving services and results for children with IEPs. The Iowa Department of Education is gathering these data as […]

The Lee County Writing Contest is sponsored by the Lee County Chapter of the Iowa Reading Association. Authors read their winning entries at an awards celebration held at Keokuk Middle School Thursday, April 6. Fourteen Keokuk entries placed at the state competition and students will be recognized in Ames at the Iowa Reading Association conference […]

STEM opportunities are growing in the Keokuk Community School District from preschool to the high school thanks to the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council and the grant-writing efforts of Betty Ralph, Diane Berner, and Barb Edler, despite stiff competition from over 100 applicants. STEM SCALE-UP PROGRAM Through legislative appropriation, the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council […]

Lana Proctor is the Music teacher at Hawthorne Elementary School. Lana is shown here with Mike Marsden, Hawthorne Elementary School Principal. Nominations for this honor are made yearly, and rotate throughout the elementary, middle school, and high school levels. Nominations are accepted from members of the community, students and staff. A group comprised of students, […]

The Noetic National Math Contest results are in! Grade level team winners are: 3rd- Rachel Olsen 4th- Alex Underwood 5th- Jiya Patel and Caleb Kramer Rachel Olsen scored in the top 10% and made the National Honor Roll! (photo in the blue shirt with two medals). The following students scored in the top 50% Nationally […]

Two employees from Siemens visited Diane Berner’s fourth and fifth graders today to give students feedback on their submersible designs and talk about their careers. Engineer Tyler Gray (Cardinal Stritch) and Technical Instructor Mary O’Hara (Keokuk High School) are both Keokuk graduates. Students use the Engineering Design Process to research, design, test, and improve their […]

The Keokuk Community School District held their annual Veteran’s Day Assembly on Thursday. The next time you see a soldier, whether it is a past, a present or a future solider, go up, shake their hand and say thank you for serving our country because in our eyes they are the Heroes of our […]

Congratulations to Diane Berner, K-5 TAG for being a winner for Wal-Mart’s “Commander in Teach(ers)” award. Diane was one of twenty teachers selected nationwide. The Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council is a bipartisan collaboration of legislators, educators, businesses, students and families to increase STEM awareness and opportunities in Iowa. To learn more about STEM programming […]